These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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Revelation 1
Brit Hadashah 20 verses
- 1 The revelation given by the , which granted Him, that He might make known to His servants certain events which must shortly come to pass: and He sent His and communicated it to His .
- 2 This is the who taught the concerning the Word of and the told us by the —a faithful account of what he had seen.
- 3 Blessed is he who reads and blessed are those who listen to the words of this prophecy and lay to what is written in it; for the time for its fulfillment is now close at hand.
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sends greetings to the seven Churches in the province of Asia. May be granted to you, and , from Him who is and was and evermore will be; and from the seven Spirits which are before His throne;
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Revelation 3:1 Revelation 4:5 Isaiah 11:2 Revelation 5:6 Zechariah 4:10 Revelation 1:8 Hebrews 1:10-13 Revelation 4:8 Zechariah 3:9 Romans 1:7 Revelation 3:7 Isaiah 41:4 Hebrews 13:8 John 1:1 Psalm 90:2 1 Corinthians 1:3 1 Corinthians 12:4-13 Revelation 1:20 Psalm 102:25-27 1 Peter 1:1-2 2 Corinthians 1:2 Acts 19:10 Revelation 1:11 Micah 5:2 Isaiah 57:15 Revelation 2:18 Revelation 2:8 Exodus 3:14 -
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and from the , the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own ,
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Psalm 89:27 Colossians 1:18 Revelation 3:14 Revelation 17:14 Revelation 19:16 Acts 26:23 John 18:37 Isaiah 55:4 Psalm 72:11 1 John 4:10 1 John 5:7-10 Matthew 28:18 Daniel 7:14 Ephesians 5:2 1 Timothy 6:15 1 Corinthians 15:20-23 1 Peter 1:19 Acts 20:28 Revelation 7:14 Hebrews 9:14 John 15:9 John 3:11 Psalm 89:36-37 Revelation 11:15 John 8:14-16 Galatians 2:20 Ephesians 2:4 Romans 8:37 John 13:1 1 John 1:7 Zechariah 13:1 Ephesians 1:20-22 1 Timothy 6:13 Deuteronomy 7:8 Deuteronomy 23:5 Ephesians 5:25-27 1 Corinthians 6:11 John 13:8-10 John 3:32 John 13:34 Proverbs 8:15-16 - 6 and has formed us into a Kingdom, to be priests to , His Father—to Him be ascribed the and the power until the Ages of the Ages. .
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He is coming in the clouds, and every eye will see Him, and so will those who pierced Him; and all the nations of the earth will gaze on Him and mourn. Even so. .
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Zechariah 12:10 Daniel 7:13 John 19:37 Matthew 24:30 Luke 21:27 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Mark 14:62 Matthew 26:64 1 Thessalonians 1:10 Psalm 22:16 John 19:34 Revelation 22:20 Mark 13:26 Jude 1:14 Acts 1:9-11 Hebrews 10:29 Judges 5:31 1 John 3:2 Psalm 97:2 Revelation 19:1-3 Job 19:26-27 Revelation 6:15-17 Nahum 1:3 Job 33:26 Revelation 14:14-16 Hebrews 6:6 Isaiah 19:1 Luke 23:28-30 Revelation 22:4 Psalm 68:1 Numbers 24:17 Revelation 18:15-20 - 8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord , “He who is and was and evermore will be—the Ruler of all.”
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I , your brother, and a sharer with you in the sorrows and Kingship and patient endurance of , found myself in the island of Patmos, on account of the Word of and the told us by .
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Acts 14:22 John 16:33 Revelation 1:2 Philippians 4:14 Revelation 3:10 Revelation 12:11 Revelation 13:10 James 5:7-8 Revelation 7:14 2 Thessalonians 1:4-5 1 Corinthians 4:9-13 Revelation 14:12 2 Timothy 1:8 Revelation 11:7 Revelation 2:9-10 Hebrews 10:36 Revelation 6:9 Philippians 1:7 Romans 8:17 Romans 5:3-4 Revelation 12:17 Romans 8:25 Romans 2:7-8 2 Timothy 2:3-12 Revelation 1:4 2 Thessalonians 3:5 Revelation 19:10 - 10 In the I found myself present on the day of the Lord, and I heard behind me a loud voice which resembled the blast of a trumpet.
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It said, “Write forthwith in a roll an account of what you see, and send it to the seven Churches—to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyateira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea.”
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Revelation 3:1 Revelation 1:4 Revelation 2:8 Revelation 2:18 Revelation 2:12 Jeremiah 30:2 Revelation 3:14 Isaiah 30:8 Revelation 3:7 Habakkuk 2:2 Ephesians 1:1 Colossians 4:15-16 Revelation 1:19 Revelation 21:5 Revelation 10:4 Revelation 14:13 1 Timothy 1:3 Revelation 19:9 1 Corinthians 16:8 Acts 19:1-41 Revelation 1:2 Deuteronomy 31:19 Acts 18:19-21 1 Corinthians 15:32 Acts 18:24 Revelation 1:8 Revelation 1:17 Acts 20:17 -
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I turned to see who it was that was speaking to me; and then I saw seven golden lampstands,
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- 13 and in the center of the lampstands some One resembling the Son of Man, clothed in a robe which reached to His feet, and with a girdle of gold across His breast.
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His head and His hair were white, like white wool—as white as snow; and His eyes resembled a flame of fire.
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His feet were like silver-bronze, when it is white-hot in a furnace; and His voice resembled the sound of many waters.
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- 16 In His right hand He held seven stars, and a sharp, two-edged sword was seen coming from His mouth; and His glance resembled the sun when it is shining with its full strength.
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When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as if I were dead. But He laid His right hand upon me and said, “Do not be afraid: I am the First and the Last, and the ever-living One.
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Isaiah 44:6 Revelation 22:13 Isaiah 48:12 Isaiah 41:4 Daniel 8:17-18 Revelation 2:8 Daniel 10:8-10 Revelation 1:8 Matthew 17:2-7 Mark 16:5-6 Daniel 10:15 Genesis 15:1 Daniel 10:17-19 Ezekiel 1:28 Isaiah 41:10 Daniel 10:12 Matthew 28:4 John 21:20 Exodus 20:20 Revelation 1:11 Exodus 14:13 Luke 24:37-39 -
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I died; but I am now alive until the Ages of the Ages, and I have the keys of the gates of Death and of Hades!
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Romans 6:9 Romans 14:8-9 Hebrews 7:25 Revelation 4:9 Hebrews 7:16 Isaiah 22:22 Revelation 3:7 Revelation 9:1 Hebrews 12:2 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 2 Corinthians 13:4 Psalm 18:46 Revelation 20:14 Galatians 2:20 Revelation 20:1-2 John 14:19 Hebrews 1:3 Psalm 68:20 Job 19:25 Matthew 16:19 Colossians 3:3 Revelation 5:14 -
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Write down therefore the things you have just seen, and those which are now taking place, and those which are soon to follow:
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- 20 the secret meaning of the seven stars which you have seen in My right hand, and of the seven lampstands of gold. The seven stars are the ministers of the seven Churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven Churches.